swee'pea99
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"Boring"? Jesus.
What book are you currently reading?
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Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
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Huckleberry Finn is probably my favourite ever book, it's quite shocking when read with adult eyes.
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Thomk
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Great stuff. I now have high expectations and am looking forward to it!
Andrew_Culture
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I'd love to know what you think of it once you've read it 
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Thomk
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coffeejo
Ælfrēd
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"The Hour" by Michael Hutchinson. I'm enjoying it thus far.
Inertia
I feel like I could... TAKE ON THE WORLD!!
Its really good so far so I'd recommend it if it sounds like fun to you, let me know what you think
Thomk
Guru
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Just finished Tom Sawyer. Can't believe I didn't read it when I was a kid, almost had me in tears in places! Huckleberry Finn next, looking forward to it.
swee'pea99
Legendary Member
An extract from that Bill Bryson I mentioned....from the tail-end of a piece about the ineptitude of various branches of America's law-enforcement community:
"A lot of people conclude from this that the FBI and its agents are dangerously inept. Although this is indubitably so, there are extenuating circumstances for the bureau's low morale and poor performance – namely the discovery last year that there is a group of people even more astoundingly incompetent. I refer to America's sheriff's departments.
Space does not permit a comprehensive survey of the singular accomplishments of America's sheriff's departments, so I will cite just two. First, there was the news that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department set a record last year by incorrectly releasing twenty-three prisoners, some of them quite dangerous and cranky. After the release of prisoner number twenty-three, a supervisor explained to journalists that a clerk had received papers ordering that the prisoner be sent to Oregon to serve out a long sentence for burglary and rape, but had taken this to mean giving him back all his possessions, escorting him to the door and recommending ending a good pizza place around the corner.
Even better, in my view, were the sheriff's deputies in Milwaukee who were sent to the airport with a team of sniffer dogs to practise hunting out explosives. The deputies hid a five-pound packet of live explosives somewhere in the airport and then – I just love this – forgot where. Needless to say,. the dogs couldn't find it. That was in February and they're still looking. It was the second time that the Milwaukee. sheriff's department has managed to mislay explosives at the airport."
"A lot of people conclude from this that the FBI and its agents are dangerously inept. Although this is indubitably so, there are extenuating circumstances for the bureau's low morale and poor performance – namely the discovery last year that there is a group of people even more astoundingly incompetent. I refer to America's sheriff's departments.
Space does not permit a comprehensive survey of the singular accomplishments of America's sheriff's departments, so I will cite just two. First, there was the news that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department set a record last year by incorrectly releasing twenty-three prisoners, some of them quite dangerous and cranky. After the release of prisoner number twenty-three, a supervisor explained to journalists that a clerk had received papers ordering that the prisoner be sent to Oregon to serve out a long sentence for burglary and rape, but had taken this to mean giving him back all his possessions, escorting him to the door and recommending ending a good pizza place around the corner.
Even better, in my view, were the sheriff's deputies in Milwaukee who were sent to the airport with a team of sniffer dogs to practise hunting out explosives. The deputies hid a five-pound packet of live explosives somewhere in the airport and then – I just love this – forgot where. Needless to say,. the dogs couldn't find it. That was in February and they're still looking. It was the second time that the Milwaukee. sheriff's department has managed to mislay explosives at the airport."
MissTillyFlop
Evil communist dictator, lover of gerbils & Pope.
Still on Lady Chaterley's Lover - I don't know what it is, but I keep needing to go back and reread some sections of it over and over again....
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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After my parents died, I found a very well thumbed first edition of the book hidden at the bottom of a drawer somewhere. I was quite shocked that they'd read it!
Cheddar George
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I am reading a book by Elmore Leonard.
I have come to realise that the major draw back of a Kindle is that i rarely know the title of the book i am reading as i haven't looked at the title since i clicked on it last week.
Any way there are some pretty serious bad ass black dudes causing all kinds of mayhem.
I have come to realise that the major draw back of a Kindle is that i rarely know the title of the book i am reading as i haven't looked at the title since i clicked on it last week.
Any way there are some pretty serious bad ass black dudes causing all kinds of mayhem.
Cheddar George
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No ....... i read that one a few weeks ago.
